The prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress and their associated factors in college students

Aim: To estimate the prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress and associated factors in a population of college students. Method: Cross-sectional study of psychological distress measured through the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) in a sample of 1074 college students. Results: We found a moderate prevalence of depression (18, 4%), anxiety (23, 6%) and stress (34, 5%) symptoms in our study population. Being <21, having problematic Internet use behavior, smoking, presenting insomnia and having a low self-esteem were independently associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. Being a woman, living with their family, having a stable partner, consuming alcohol frequently and having poor nutritional habits were significantly associated with symptoms of stress; lacking a stable partner was significantly associated with depressive symptoms; and frequent consumption of alcohol was significantly associated with symptoms of anxiety. Conclusion: We found a moderate prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress symptoms in our population. Interventions aimed at promoting mental health among college students should be implemented

The early/middle Eocene transition at the Ésera valley (South Central Pyrenees): Implications in Shallow Benthic Zones (SBZ)

An integrated study including magnetostratigraphy, larger benthic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy is presented herein. This work was performed in shallow marine siliciclastics rich in larger foraminifera, around the Ypresian/Lutetian boundary in the Ésera valley (South-Central Pyrenees). Although the calcareous nannofossil content in the studied interval is low, not allowing a precise Y/L boundary to be recognised, the taxa found are enough to support the chronostratigraphic attribution. Data obtained in the Ésera valley section has improved the knowledge of larger benthic foraminifera (Nummulites and Assilina) distribution through chron C21. SBZ 11 to SBZ 12 transition took place at the lowermost C21r, as shown in previous works. SBZ 12 assemblages extend into C21n, where the SBZ 12 to SBZ 13 boundary occurs. These data, obtained in shallow marine siliciclastic facies, with in situ fauna, results in a shift of the SBZ 12/SBZ 13 boundary to the Lower Lutetian, younger than previously believed. Accordingly, the Ypresian/Lutetian boundary occurs in SBZ 12

The early/middle Eocene transition at the Ésera valley (South-Central Pyrenees): Implications in Shallow Benthic Zones (SBZ)

An integrated study including magnetostratigraphy, larger benthic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy is presented herein. This work was performed in shallow marine siliciclastics rich in larger foraminifera, around the Ypresian/Lutetian boundary in the Ésera valley (South-Central Pyrenees). Although the calcareous nannofossil content in the studied interval is low, not allowing a precise Y/L boundary to be recognised, the taxa found are enough to support the chronostratigraphic attribution. Data obtained in the Ésera valley section has improved the knowledge of larger benthic foraminifera (Nummulites and Assilina) distribution through chron C21. SBZ 11 to SBZ 12 transition took place at the lowermost C21r, as shown in previous works. SBZ 12 assemblages extend into C21n, where the SBZ 12 to SBZ 13 boundary occurs. These data, obtained in shallow marine siliciclastic facies, with in situ fauna, results in a shift of the SBZ 12/SBZ 13 boundary to the Lower Lutetian, younger than previously believed. Accordingly, the Ypresian/Lutetian boundary occurs in SBZ 12. © A. Rodríguez-Pintó, J. Serra-Kiel, G. Bernaola, A. Barnolas, E.L. Pueyo, J. Tosquella, P. Arbués, R. Scholger, 2022 CC BY-SA

Evaluación de diferentes dosis de gonadotrofina coriónica equina en el protocolo de sincronización de celo en ovejas

Con el objetivo de evaluar los efectos de diferentes dosis de gonadotrofina coriónica equina (eCG) en el protocolo de sincronización de ovejas Santa Inês en el subtrópico argentino, se sincronizaron 55 animales. Las hembras tratadas recibieron esponja intravaginal con progestágeno. El día 5 se retiró la esponja, se aplicó PGF2α y se dividió a las ovejas en dos tratamientos: T1 recibió 200 UI y T2 300 UI de eCG. Por la tarde las hembras se colocaron con los carneros, iniciándose la observación del servicio. Las variables registradas fueron intervalo al celo y frecuencia de hembras en celo. A los 7 y 30 días del servicio se realizaron ecografías para diagnóstico de cuerpo lúteo (CL) y preñez. El análisis se realizó por tablas de frecuencia, ANOVA y Chi2 (p&lt;0,05). El 76,36% de las ovejas tratadas presentó celo, 85,2% en T1 y 67,85% en T2, sin diferencia significativa (p&gt;0,05). En cambio, el intervalo al celo fue diferente entre tratamientos (p&lt; 0,05). En T1 los celos se concentraron entre las 48 y 60 h de finalizado el mismo, mientras que en T2 ocurrió entre 24 a 36 h. De aquellas hembras a quienes se pudo localizar el ovario mediante ecografía, en T1 79% presentaron 1 CL, 10,5% 2 CL y 10,5% solamente folículos. En T2 estos porcentajes fueron 69%, 25% y 6,3% respectivamente (p&gt;0,05). En cuanto a la gestación, en T1 el 66,6% tuvo preñez simple y el 11,11% doble, mientras que en T2 los valores fueron 60,71% y 17,9% para preñez simple y doble respectivamente (p&gt;0,05). Se concluye que en ovejas Santa Inês de la región subtropical, las dosis de 200 y 300 UI de eCG permiten obtener porcentajes de celo superiores al 67% y que las dosis de 300 UI adelantan la presentación de cel

Fecundidad y desarrollo gonadal de la “boga” Leporinus obtusidens (Pisces, Anostomidae) en la represa Yacyretá, Argentina

En el presente trabajo se exponen los resultados obtenidos durante cinco años consecutivos de muestreos de boga Leporinus obtusidens en dos puntos del río Paraná, Argentina, considerando a uno de ellos como zona de impacto de la represa Yaciretá y otro sitio, lejano a la misma, como zona control. Se analiza la relación gonadosomática, las fecundidades absoluta y relativa y se describen las características morfológicas de los ovocitos en desarrollo. A pesar de las numerosas modificaciones que impone la presencia de una represa en las características de un río, los resultados sugieren que la boga no muestra repercusiones negativas en varios aspectos relacionados a la biología reproductiva en respuesta a las condiciones ambientales cambiantes y a niveles hídricos que fluctúan rápidamente

Nursing lecturers’ perception and experience of teaching cultural competence: a european qualitative study

Cultural competence is an essential component in providing effective and culturally responsive healthcare services, reducing health inequalities, challenging racism in health care and improving patient safety, satisfaction and health outcomes. It is thus reasonable that undergraduate nursing students can develop cultural competency through education and training. The aim of this paper was to investigate nursing lecturers’ perception and experience of teaching cultural competence in four undergraduate nursing programs. A phenomenological approach was selected to illicit nursing lecturers’ perception of culture and experience of teaching cultural competence. Semi-struc-tured personal interviews were held with a sample of 24 lecturers from four European universities. The anonymized transcripts were analyzed qualitatively following Braun and Clark’s phases for thematic analysis. Six themes and fifteen subthemes emerged from thematic analysis of the tran-scripts. Cultural competence was not explicitly integrated in the nursing curricula. Instead, the lecturers used mainly examples and case studies to illustrate the theory. The integration of cultural content in the modules was unplanned and not based on a specific model. Nursing programs should be examined to establish how cultural content is integrated in the curricula; clear guidelines and standards for a systematic integration of cultural content in the nursing curriculum should be de-veloped

The Transcriptional Regulatory Network of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Under the perspectives of network science and systems biology, the characterization of transcriptional regulatory (TR) networks beyond the context of model organisms offers a versatile tool whose potential remains yet mainly unexplored. In this work, we present an updated version of the TR network of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), which incorporates newly characterized transcriptional regulations coming from 31 recent, different experimental works available in the literature. As a result of the incorporation of these data, the new network doubles the size of previous data collections, incorporating more than a third of the entire genome of the bacterium. We also present an exhaustive topological analysis of the new assembled network, focusing on the statistical characterization of motifs significances and the comparison with other model organisms. The expanded M.tb transcriptional regulatory network, considering its volume and completeness, constitutes an important resource for diverse tasks such as dynamic modeling of gene expression and signaling processes, computational reliability determination or protein function prediction, being the latter of particular relevance, given that the function of only a small percent of the proteins of M.tb is known

10 Myr evolution of sedimentation rates in a deep marine to non-marine foreland basin system: Tectonic and sedimentary controls (Eocene, Tremp–Jaca Basin, Southern Pyrenees, NE Spain)

The propagation of the deformation front in foreland systems is typically accompanied by the incorporation of parts of the basin into wedge-top piggy-back basins, this process is likely producing considerable changes to sedimentation rates (SR). Here we investigate the spatial-temporal evolution of SR for the Tremp–Jaca Basin in the Southern Pyrenees during its evolution from a wedge-top, foreredeep, forebulge configuration to a wedge-top stage. SR were controlled by a series of tectonic structures that influenced subsidence distribution and modified the sediment dispersal patterns. We compare the decompacted SR calculated from 12 magnetostratigraphic sections located throughout the Tremp–Jaca Basin represent the full range of depositional environment and times. While the derived long-term SR range between 9.0 and 84.5 cm/kyr, compiled data at the scale of magnetozones (0.1–2.5 Myr) yield SR that range from 3.0 to 170 cm/kyr. From this analysis, three main types of depocenter are recognized: a regional depocenter in the foredeep depozone; depocenters related to both regional subsidence and salt tectonics in the wedge-top depozone; and a depocenter related to clastic shelf building showing transgressive and regressive trends with graded and non-graded episodes. From the evolution of SR we distinguish two stages. The Lutetian Stage (from 49.1–41.2 Ma) portrays a compartmentalized basin characterized by variable SR in dominantly underfilled accommodation areas. The markedly different advance of the deformation front between the Central and Western Pyrenees resulted in a complex distribution of the foreland depozones during this stage. The Bartonian–Priabonian Stage (41.2–36.9 Ma) represents the integration of the whole basin into the wedge-top, showing a generalized reduction of SR in a mostly overfilled relatively uniform basin. The stacking of basement units in the hinterland during the whole period produced unusually high SR in the wedge-top depozoneAgència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca, Grant/Award Number: 2017SGR596; Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, Grant/Award Number: BES-2015-073302 and CGL2014-55900-P; Swiss National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 200020_18201

Optimal residential water conservation strategies considering related energy in California

Although most freshwater resources are used in agriculture, residential water use is a much more energy intensive user. Based on this, we analyze the increased willingness to adopt water conservation strategies if energy cost is included in the customers' utility function. Using a Water-Energy-CO2 emissions model for household water end uses and probability distribution functions for parameters affecting water and water-related energy use in 10 different locations in California, this research introduces a probabilistic two-stage optimization model considering technical and behavioral decision variables to obtain the most economical strategies to minimize household water and water-related energy bills and costs given both water and energy price shocks. Results can provide an upper bound of household savings for customers with well-behaved preferences, and show greater adoption rates to reduce energy intensive appliances when energy is accounted, resulting in an overall 24% reduction in indoor water use that represents a 30% reduction in water-related energy use and a 53% reduction in household water-related CO2 emissions. Previous use patterns and water and energy rate structures can affect greatly the potential benefits for customers and so their behavior. Given that water and energy are somewhat complementary goods for customers, we use results of the optimization to obtain own-price and cross-price elasticities of residential water use by simulating increases in water and energy prices. While the results are highly influenced by assumptions due to lack of empirical data, the method presented has no precedent in the literature and hopefully will stimulate the collection of additional relevant data.This paper has been developed as a result of a mobility stay funded by the Erasmus Mundus Programme of the European Commission under the Transatlantic Partnership for Excellence in Engineering-TEE Project. Water end-use data were kindly provided by Aquacraft Inc. who are able to release the data under private agreements and to whom we are very grateful.Escrivà Bou, À.; Lund, J.; Pulido-Velazquez, M. (2015). Optimal residential water conservation strategies considering related energy in California. Water Resources Research. 51(6):4482-4498. doi:10.1002/2014WR016821S4482449851

Sedimentation rate evolution along a Forelang Basin system an its tectosedimentary domain: Eocene, south-Pyrenean foreland basin (Tremp-Graus-Ainsa-Jaca)

X Congreso Geológico de España, 5-7 Julio 2021, Vitoria - GasteizRecientes estudios magnetoestratigráficos de alta resolución (secciones de Yebra de Basa, Olsón y Planiello-Aguilar), junto con otros registros previamente publicados, han permitido realizar un estudio detallado de las tasas de sedimentación (SR) a lo largo de la cuenca de antepaís surpirenaica. En este análisis se han reconocido tres tipos principales de depocentro: (a) un depocentro regional asociado a la flexión de la placa en la depozona de foredeep; (b) depocentros locales relacionados con el crecimiento de estructuras tectónicas en la depozona de wedge-top; y (c) un depocentro móvil, relacionado con la construcción de plataformas siliciclásticas, con diferentes situaciones asociadas con apilamientos progradacionales o retrogradacionales y episodios de estabilidad e inestabilidad en los taludes. Nuestro estudio evidencia la ausencia de una correlación directa entre los valores de SR y la subdivisión clásica de las cuencas de antepaís en depozonas. Así, la progradación de plataformas siliciclásticas, en ocasiones, tiene un impacto en las SR mayor que la pertenencia a una depozona estructural específica. El crecimiento de estructuras tectónicas en la depozona de wedge-top y el apilamiento de unidades en el hinterland puede dar lugar a escenarios de SR más complejos de lo esperad